Game 72: Pistons (19-52) vs. Trailblazers (26-44) Mar. 21 7:00 PM EST

[Cowology]

What's crazy is that the Blazers have 0 starters and we have 4 of our 5 starters and many people want Bagley to replace Grant as a starter and we're just horrible. Cade not playing anything close to winning basketball even though he went 9-16 for 22 points.

Trying to make this about Grant vs. Bagley when we have zero shooters on the floor is kinda silly. We all acknowledge you can't play Stewart, Bagley & Hayes together. That's true whether Grant is on the floor or not. You can put Cade & Grant out there with them and it's still a disaster.

[bstein14]

Cade nails another meaningless 3..... watch the haters come out and call him a stat stuffer.

[Rodman]

The Pistons need a star. Someone who can make a play for himself. Other than Cade they don't really have that on the team

[Cowology]

2nd game in a row Cade hits the meaningless 3 to stuff the stat sheet LOL

[JLiv]

All things considered, good L

[whitehops]

lmao cade with 40 footers to end the last two games

[vege]

10 more painful losses to go

[kpt]

Worst loss of the year. Ugly!! But hey there is the tank though

[zeebneeb]

Rockets are threatening to actually win a game tonight. Let's go Rockets. Make this turd of a game mean something.

[whitehops]

Cade understands the ASSIGNMENT at this point in the season LOL

at this point that honestly has to be part of the reason. he put in good effort defensively earlier in the year and it's slowly gotten a bit worse with his increased offensive role but the last few games have been borderline egregious.

plus his body language in general has been a bit off. i'm sure he isn't thrilled about all the tank moves and isn't really down with the facade that we're trying to win games when we're trotting out borderline G league lineups.

[Cowology]

Cade understands the ASSIGNMENT at this point in the season LOL

at this point that honestly has to be part of the reason. he put in good effort defensively earlier in the year and it's slowly gotten a bit worse with his increased offensive role but the last few games have been borderline egregious.

plus his body language in general has been a bit off. i'm sure he isn't thrilled about all the tank moves and isn't really down with the facade that we're trying to win games when we're trotting out borderline G league lineups.

Yeah, the guy is exerting a tremendous amount of energy at the offensive end of the floor. Kinda hard to expect him to give that same effort at the defensive end when we're rolling out Pickett, Lee & Garza and playing Hayes starter minutes. That's... a lot.

I wish he'd give a bit more, but it's definitely understandable if he's physically & emotionally drained. I don't like it, but not going to make a big deal out it or hold it against him given the circumstance.

[The Sebastian Express]

Damn you all and your loss! We needed it! /shakesfist.

[NYPiston]

Missed this one. Kind of shocked they lost considering that everybody of note is injured for the Blazers. That's a stealth tank loss if I've ever seen one.

[NYPiston]

at this point that honestly has to be part of the reason. he put in good effort defensively earlier in the year and it's slowly gotten a bit worse with his increased offensive role but the last few games have been borderline egregious.

plus his body language in general has been a bit off. i'm sure he isn't thrilled about all the tank moves and isn't really down with the facade that we're trying to win games when we're trotting out borderline G league lineups.

Nothing to play for, the finish line of the season is near and tanking team players tend to lose motivation more and more, and it's been a rough season for him in terms of injuries/sickness so not surprising that the energy level has dipped. Kind of amazing how well he's played all those things considered.

[Uncle Mxy]

We lost. Houston won. Tanks a lot, Portland!

[MotownMadness]

We're still right there fighting for the worst record

[Manocad]

I literally had no idea this game was on.

[Billl]

Guess if there were any questions about us tanking down the stretch, this game answers them. No grant, cojo, olynyk or mcgruder. Pickett was actually the oldest guy out there and he's a rookie.

[Manocad]

Guess if there were any questions about us tanking down the stretch, this game answers them. No grant, cojo, olynyk or mcgruder. Pickett was actually the oldest guy out there and he's a rookie.

Which is why it's funny listening to morons talking about how Gores, Weaver and Casey are trying to win every game, i.e. making stuff up in order to have something to criticize.